Criticism of proposed scheme comes as another blow to the party’s struggling election campaign Britain’s armed forces need more money not untrained teenage volunteers, former military leaders and Tory figures have said in a new blow to the Conservatives’ faltering election campaign. Within hours of […]
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Aid groups say they are “horrified” by an Israeli strike on tents housing displaced people in the southern city of Rafah that has left at least 35 people dead. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said dozens of dead and injured people were brought to a trauma stabilisation […]
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There will be no train service between Apeldoorn and Amersfoort on Monday due to problems with the overhead lines. It will take all day to repair the damage which is “extensive”, NS said. The service is expected to be up and running again from around midnight. Travellers […]
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Police discovered between 10 and 15 kilograms of white heroin in a hidden compartment of a car in Amsterdam on Tuesday. The 46-year-old driver of the vehicle from The Hague was taken into custody after the discovery was made. Investigators initially believed the packages contained […]
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A hundred fines were issued in the night from Saturday to Sunday to partygoers who had come to a party a cold store of an old company building in Zeist (Utrecht) The police had received various reports that groups of people had been seen in […]
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The trade in illegal fireworks is increasingly resembling drug trafficking – deals are made through encrypted messaging services, runners are walking the streets not knowing whose fireworks they are delivering, and a number of players are responsible for importing tens of thousands of kilograms of […]
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In the first half of this year, customs officers confiscated more than twice as much cocaine as in the same period last year. So far this year, 77 shipments with a total of 25,599 kilograms of cocaine were intercepted and seized, compared to 60 shipments […]
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It was a difficult night for one drunk pedestrian, who police officers found sleeping on the shoulder at the junction of two major expressways in Amsterdam on Friday night. The man was on his way to Amsterdam-Zuidoost, but police said he was “so under the […]
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Police arrested a 31-year-old Rotterdam man who they suspect of co-perpetrating the assassination of criminal defense attorney Derk Wiersum last September. The man was arrested in Amsterdam on Monday, and remanded into custody by a magistrate on Thursday, police said. A tactical team was used to make […]
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The Domino’s Pizza on Biljmerplein in Amsterdam Zuidoost will equip its delivery workers with bodycams to protect them against robbery. “It is almost certain that this plan will continue”, spokesperson Marianne Kemps of Domino’s Pizza said to Het Parool. Domino’s already successfully experimented with bodycams, […]
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Even with nearly two months left to go in the year, authorities at the Port of Rotterdam this year have already surpassed the record amount of cocaine caught there in 2018, according to an investigation by De Telegraaf. Some 23 thousand kilograms of cocaine was […]
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Prosecutors on Tuesday alleged that a group of seven men were at least partly responsible for the importation of approximately 1,125 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside a shipment of frozen fish. The cocaine entered the Netherlands at the Port of Rotterdam and was then tracked […]
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As Tomorrowland ends for another year, figures have emerged on the number of arrests made, drugs confiscated and crimes committed during the two weekends of the massive electronic festival in Flanders. The figures, published by Het Nieuwsblad, combine the latest info from the two weekends […]
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